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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (1988). What lifted this biography to new heights was Branch's researches into the origins of the Southern black churches and their influence in inspiring and organizing Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights revolution. Volume II is in the works...
...Klux Klansmen involved in a bloody 1979 confrontation with blacks in Decatur, Ala. In September Vance wrote a bluntly worded reversal of a lower-court ruling that had lifted an 18-year-old desegregation order from the Duval County, Fla., schools. The plaintiff in that case was the Jacksonville branch of the N.A.A.C.P. Robinson had played a part in a failed N.A.A.C.P. challenge to a school desegregation plan for Savannah...
...antiabortion groups as Operation Rescue that block abortion clinics and harass their clients. "It's quite ironic that Cardinal O'Connor is so angry over this act of civil disobedience, when he has espoused a form of it himself," said Ellen Carton, executive director of the New York State branch of the National Abortion Rights Action League. The Cardinal offered an answer as he gave the benediction for the interrupted Mass at St. Patrick's. Said O'Connor: "I must preach what the church preaches, teach what the church teaches...
Under this multilayered plan, the Paris bank would set up a corporation for the customer in Rotterdam, where he would deposit his cash in the bank's local branch. The American would control the newly created Dutch corporation through an Antilles trust company, but his identity as the owner would be protected by the island group's impenetrable secrecy laws. The Caribbean branch would then "lend" the American his own money held in Rotterdam...
...money-laundering center can be spotted by the huge surplus of cash that flows into the local branch of the Federal Reserve System. In 1985 the Miami branch posted a $6 billion excess. But after several years of intense federal probes of South Florida banks, Miami's cash glut fell last year to $4.5 billion. Much of the business went to Los Angeles, where the cash surplus ballooned from $166 million in 1985 to $3.8 billion last year. Despite such rocketing growth, the staffing of federal law-enforcement offices in L.A. still lags far behind the levels in Miami...